esahubble_ann1006a June 22nd, 2010
Credit: NASA, ESA and Jesús Maíz Apellániz (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain)
This image is a screen shot from Hubblecast 37 featuring a spectacular new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image one of the largest ever released of a star-forming region. It highlights N11, part of a complex network of gas clouds and star clusters within our neighbouring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. This region of energetic star formation is one of the most active in the nearby Universe. Read more about it in the press release heic1011.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/ann1006a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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